The meteorites that made earth were filled with water
According to the most widely accepted scientific theory, our Solar System formed from a nebula of dust and gas roughly 4.56 billion years ago...
After all of this time searching for aliens, is it the zoo hypothesis or...
In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist Enrico Fermi asked the question that launched a...
Saturn’s moon Enceladus: A promising spot for alien life
Have you ever wondered if we're alone in the universe?
Well, scientists are getting closer to answering that big question, thanks to a tiny moon...
A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial...
Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets,...
Organic molecules come from the universe’s cold places, shows study
Life, as we all know, is based on chemistry.
Prebiotic chemical building blocks existed on our planet for a long time before life arose.
Astrobiology and...
We owe our lives to the Moon
Life appeared on Earth through a series of lucky coincidences, and that luck started with our Moon.
None of the other planets of the inner...
Fireworks frighten millions of birds, shows study
Imagine the excitement of New Year's Eve, the sky bursting with fireworks, but have you ever thought about how it affects our feathered friends?
A...
Why some of us are early birds? Neanderthal genes may be the reason
Have you ever wondered why some people are early risers, feeling most energetic in the morning, while others are night owls?
A new study suggests...
Entropy is the key to a planet’s habitability
We all know that to have life on a world, you need three critical items: water, warmth, and food. Now add to that a...
Earth may have had all the elements needed for life within it all along...
For many years, scientists have predicted that many of the elements that are crucial ingredients for life, like sulfur and nitrogen, first came to...